stevegrant

If you've got a network railcard, you can get a discounted fare as far as Manningtree for £19.85, and the rest of the journey is £5.40.

Being at one end of the country doesn't help, I'd say, especially in terms of travel costs. In order to get anywhere north of the M4, you realistically have to go via London (the CrossCountry trains from Bournemouth to Manchester seemed to always be horrendously expensive even on advance bookings), which is a ballache as you then have to add at least another 2 hours to your journey.

Should be an interesting game. Barnsley apparently had a decent pre-season, have made some astute signings, and got a decent result at Forest on the opening day, but then had a disastrous home defeat to Morecambe on Tuesday night. Keith Hill has a 100% record against us, so hopefully we can rectify that. I wouldn't be too disappointed with a draw, but we've looked good so far this season (it makes a pleasant change for us to start the season well) so a win's certainly not out of the question.

He had a horrific injury during his time in Scotland, so it's possible that the injury has reduced his mobility. At the highest level, that's a key requirement.

And what's stopping the new guys doing the same? It's perfectly logical to do, doesn't really take a great deal of effort and will improve their efficiency immeasurably.

The contract will be costing The Betting Room a fortune (comfortably into five figures), so they'll need to recoup that money through getting enough punters betting with them. Also, where they're such a small company, they'll probably have to recruit temporary staff for matchdays due to the number of booths they have to operate, whereas Ladbrokes used to just use their shop staff as they've got more resources available to them.

Could you detail exactly what you've tried to do so I can try to replicate it?

6,541 is the attendance, including 348 Torquay fans

Directly linked to the other trial, I guess.

One of the most profound Twitter posts I've read today: "Only in the UK could someone wearing £100 trainers use a £300 smartphone to organise a riot while pleading poverty".

There's a rumour doing the rounds that Redknapp has been sentenced to 13 weeks in prison - his regular column in Saturday's Sun was missing, but I don't think anyone's actually been able to prove or disprove that one yet.

Difficult to comment without knowing what actually went on in Tottenham, to be honest. The result if the IPCC inquiry will be interesting, though. Just a thought, Section 27 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act is often used against groups of football fans who police believe may be intending to cause trouble - basically it gives them the power to remove them from an area, district or entire town/city for a period of time. Why the hell haven't they used this here?

This is the bit I don't get, if they've got "strong intelligence", surely they can put a stop to it before it kicks off?

The Met have now said the use of rubber/plastic bullets is "an option".

Twitter's a difficult one due to re-tweets, the use of sarcasm/parody for comedic purposes, etc. It seemed as though the disorder has mostly been organised via BBM - gone are the days when a Blackberry was the sole preserve of a business executive wanting to be able to pick up their emails at all times; now the main attraction is the messenger feature, it's instant, you not only get a notification that the user has received the message, you also get one when they've READ the message (unlike delivery reports with text messages, which only do the former), and it's generally included within the data allowances on your mobile contract. Whenever I'm on a tram in Croydon, it's always Blackberry phones that the kids are playing with. BBM is a much more private means of communication, messages are only sent to people who you have a connection with, which you set up with a PIN that is unique to each handset. If these people have set up a wide network of communications with groups across London to organise widespread violent disorder, it really shouldn't be too hard to pin charges on them. The messages aren't for public broadcast, that's why they're sent on a private network rather than via Twitter or Facebook, and that's why they were able to overpower the police in so many different parts of the city.

Isn't this part of the problem, that young people automatically assume they're going to be handed "opportunities" on a plate without actually having to put in any effort? The pikey **** the Sky reporter confronted in Clapham last night summed it up perfectly when she claimed that she was "getting our taxes back" - I would wager serious money that she's never paid a penny in tax in her life. generalisation>

I would start by getting hold of all the Blackberry messenger logs from the last few days, identifying all of the people responsible for sending the messages which were essentially organising this disorder. It'll be nigh-on impossible to catch those responsible for the looting, there's simply too many people and very little in the way of identifying evidence, as the vast majority were hooded/masked up. Some of them will have left fingerprints at the scene, take the video of the kids breaking into Ladbrokes at Clapham Junction, it didn't look like any of them wore gloves, and they were trying (and mostly failing) to pull a TV off the wall. Should be plenty of fingerprints there, and very little chance of claiming they got there during normal activity, i.e. going in the bookies to put a bet on. Go round all the schools and colleges, get fingerprints off everyone and cross-reference. They've got to start somewhere.

I assume he's taking the ****, given that we've spent the past ****-knows-how-many years meddling in Iran's domestic affairs.

My flat is about 400m from Reeves' furniture shop in Croydon. That's closer than I really want to get to this ****ing mess, to be honest.

Should be fixed for everyone who has actually paid - a fairly big clue on this thread as to who are trying to pull a fast one Apologies for the balls-up, looking into it now. Seems to only be an issue with subscriptions that were originally created in 2008, later ones appear to be fine.

When we played up there in their promotion season, their ball boys would race to place the ball for corners in the right place for the kicker for a Reading corner, but would amble around and leisurely throw it in the general direction for a Saints corner. Similar with throw-ins, the ball would be dry for a Reading throw, but wet for the opponent.

Over the same time period: 23 Apr 2011: Brighton 1-2 Saints (1-0 HT) 12 Apr 2011: Rochdale 2-0 Saints (2-0 HT) 2 Apr 2011: Saints 3-2 MK Dons (0-1 HT) 22 Jan 2011: Tranmere 2-0 Saints (1-0 HT) 11 Dec 2010: Saints 0-2 Brentford (0-2 HT) 13 Nov 2010: Carlisle 3-2 Saints (2-0 HT) 30 Oct 2010: Notts County 1-3 Saints (1-0 HT) 16 Oct 2010: Huddersfield 2-0 Saints (2-0 HT) 4 Sep 2010: Saints 0-2 Rochdale (0-1 HT) 1 May 2010: Gillingham 2-1 Saints (1-0 HT) So a somewhat more mixed record when we've been trailing at half-time. P10 W3 L7

6 Aug 2011: Saints 3-1 Leeds (2-0 HT) 7 May 2011: Saints 3-1 Walsall (2-1 HT) 2 May 2011: Plymouth 1-3 Saints (0-1 HT) 30 Apr 2011: Brentford 0-3 Saints (0-2 HT) 9 Apr 2011: Leyton Orient 0-2 Saints (0-1 HT) 5 Apr 2011: Saints 2-0 Charlton (1-0 HT) 8 Mar 2011: Saints 3-0 Yeovil (1-0 HT) 5 Mar 2011: Colchester 0-2 Saints (0-1 HT) 26 Feb 2011: Saints 4-1 Swindon (1-0 HT) 12 Feb 2011: Saints 1-0 Carlisle (1-0 HT) 11 Jan 2011: Oldham 0-6 Saints (0-2 HT) 1 Jan 2011: Saints 4-0 Exeter (1-0 HT) 28 Dec 2010: Saints 4-1 Huddersfield (2-1 HT) 20 Nov 2010: Saints 4-1 Peterborough (1-0 HT) 2 Nov 2010: Saints 4-0 Dagenham (2-0 HT) 9 Oct 2010: Saints 2-0 Tranmere (1-0 HT) 2 Oct 2010: Saints 2-0 Bournemouth (1-0 HT) 28 Aug 2010: Bristol Rovers 0-4 Saints (2-0 HT) 13 Apr 2010: Bristol Rovers 1-5 Saints (1-2 HT) 10 Apr 2010: Saints 1-0 Charlton (1-0 HT) 23 Mar 2010: Saints 3-2 Hartlepool (2-1 HT) 13 Mar 2010: Saints 1-0 Leeds (1-0 HT) 2 Mar 2010: Saints 5-0 Huddersfield (3-0 HT) 27 Feb 2010: Saints 5-1 Walsall (3-1 HT) 20 Feb 2010: Norwich 0-2 Saints (0-1 HT) ------------ 6 Feb 2010: Exeter 1-1 Saints (0-1 HT)

He's been learning from the master of avoiding questions he doesn't like the answer to...